The 14+ Most Successful Dropshipping Store Examples (2024)

Having some trouble getting your dropshipping store off the ground? Chapter 3 of PageFly’s Dropshipping 101 series has you covered. Everyone needs a little inspiration from time to time; our list of the 11 most successful dropshipping stores is proof enough that dropshipping dreams are never beyond your reach.

Below, you’ll learn what the big guys do so well and how you can recreate that success for your own store!

I. The 5 Hallmarks of a Successful Dropshipping Store

There’s two truths about dropshipping that many newbie dropshippers conveniently forget: you don’t become a success overnight and you don’t become a success by chance.

If you’re looking for a successful dropshipping store, you’ll be looking for some of these 5 hallmarks:

1.1. Unique selling point (USP)

Think differently to establish your USP. Image credit

Always ask yourself: what does my store have that others don’t?

This is the essence of a unique selling point, or USP. You want to sell women’s clothing? Or running shoes? Well, so do thousands of other dropshippers. How are you going to differentiate your store from theirs? Why would someone decide to purchase from your store as opposed to someone else’s?

This is a huge problem for many stores – they have no sense of identity. This is inexcusable really; customers get sick of copy-and-paste stores and long for something attractive and unique to pop out at them. Here’s how you can develop your own USP:

• Custom fonts (Notebook Therapy // Blue Crate)
• Your own photography (Aesthentials // Mooshe Socks)
• A great-looking logo (Aesthentials)
• Personal website design (Mooshe Socks // Notebook Therapy // Aesthentials)
• Unique products (Oddity Mall // Wallplate Warehouse)

Remember, the most successful dropshipping stores don’t look like dropshipping stores at all. Put your personal stamp on your store and be proud of it – you’ll be surprised how many customers will latch onto the solo path you’re forging.

1.2. Clear and simple store

Clear and professional layout from Bidet Genius

Attention spans are miniscule these days. Not only must stores be eye-catching, but they have to have a clear and simple layout that lets customers go from A to B to Cart.

Colourful design is great, but be sure to counter-balance it with plenty of whitespace so as not to overload the visitor. More in the way of images and less in the way of text is a pretty good rule of thumb.

Set out your store so that it’s clear where the customer is going. Highly successful dropshipping stores usually go:

Of course, you’ll want to add features along the way that boost your sales: maybe a ‘frequently bought together’ section or ‘from the same collection’ section, but the simple progression that turns leads into customers should never be broken. Both Bidet Genius and Wallplate Warehouse are great at this. (Check out our detailed reviews right below!)

1.3. Great SEO score

Those stores sitting at the top of the dropshipping pyramid are those with a fantastic SEO score. Everyone wants their store to rank first on Google for the keywords that their customers are searching, but how are you supposed to do that?

We’re aware SEO is a huge topic, so we’re definitely not going to dive into the deep with it here, but we’ve listed a few simple ways you can get your store’s SEO off the ground:

• Install an SEO plug-in – Shopify has a great range of SEO plug-ins on its app store that analyse your site and give you suggestions for optimising your SEO.

• Be original – Google loves original content. The more original the words and images are on your page, the higher the chance that you’ll rank well on Google.
  

• Add keywords – As long as it sounds natural, try to include on your page the keywords that customers are searching to find products like yours. You can include these in URLs, meta descriptions, product descriptions and the alt tags of images.

• Write a blog – A blog is an excellent way to advertise your products through writing. If your blogs rank well for a certain topic, you’ll be reaping the benefits of increased traffic and increased conversions.

Check out this article from the guys over at Personalization for more on how successful dropshipping stores get their great SEO scores.

We also wrote a detailed article about SEO for Shopify Product Page before, check it out:

How To Make Your Shopify Product Page SEO-Friendly

1.4. Free shipping

Aesthentials have the perfect shipping policy

At this point, if you’re not offering free shipping on your dropshipping site, you’ve already lost out to the competition. Free and low-price shipping is increasingly being seen by customers as the standard norm of online shopping, rather than the generous luxury it once was.

Learn more: How To Create The Right Shipping Policy Page: Tutorial + Templates

Now, this doesn’t have to mean emptying your pockets to send a waffle iron from Vermont to California; you have some options:

1. Offer blanket free shipping across all products and cover the costs with your profits.
2. Offer free shipping for orders over a certain amount to encourage bulk buying.
3. Offer low shipping costs and cover the difference by increasing the price of your products.

No matter which method you prefer, we strongly recommend you offer some form of free or low-cost shipping on your site. You’ll notice how all of our 11 successful dropshipping store examples below employ one of the 3 shipping options above.

1.5. Great social media following

Ecommerce sites like Shopify now integrate very nicely with social media. Image credit

Social media is firing out gargantuan numbers in the ecommerce field nowadays: 89% of marketers use Facebook for online marketing, while a staggering 90% of Instagram users follow a business on the platform.

Really, you’ve got no excuse for your store not to be on social media in today’s day and age. Not only do these platforms help to increase customer bases as well as overall knowledge of your brand, but they also help you enter or amass communities that are invaluable sources of information about what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong, and what you need to be doing in the future.

Of course, not every product is fit for social media (Bidet Genius and Wallplate Warehouse, anyone?), but finding your leads on social media could mean huge business for your store.

Don’t have time to read the whole guide? Check out our video guide highlighting key analysis points here

II. Top 11 Successful Dropshipping Stores

Take a look at our list of 11 successful dropshipping store examples and grow your inspiration. We’ve included what each store is doing right and how they’ve taken off in the dropshipping world.

01. Notebook Therapy

Notebook Therapy homepage.

We’re going to kick this off with quite possibly the most well-designed dropshipping store on our list. Notebook Therapy has a great layout and the perfect pastel colour palette to attract their young, Eastern culture-loving audience.

They found a trendy niche and a devoted community within it, which has made them a huge success.

1.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

1.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Killer design – Clear, simple and cutesy. Much of the store uses custom fonts and hand-drawn doodles amidst a pastel colour scheme – perfect for the audience they’re targeting.

• Incredible Instagram following – Over 1 million devoted followers who enjoy product updates and short tutorials on cute art creation. Their Instagram following is linked with their impressive YouTube following to maximise the impact of young influencers on both platforms.
  

• Amazing blog campaign – Notebook Therapy’s blog offers articles on how to draw certain doodles along with the best types of stationary to use (obviously those that the store dropships). This generates a ton of organic traffic from young, Western enthusiasts of East Asian culture.

02. Club Fit Wear

Club Fit Wear homepage.

Motivation is the name of the game with Club Fit Wear. Their large collection of printed workout clothing attracts the gym-going audience, predominantly in the U.S.

The products are cheap, foldable and easy to ship, which, combined with a ‘free shipping over $40’ policy, means that customers tend to buy in bulk.

2.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

2.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Huge catalog – Club Fit Wear’s products are essentially unlimited in their potential. You can stick any motivational saying on any piece of fabric and, undoubtedly, someone’s going to wear it.

• Knows its audience – The target audience of the store is middle-aged women, so it does well to appeal to them with a strong Facebook presence and predominantly middle-aged ambassadors.
  

• Good ambassador outreach – The store offers cash incentives to get their audience to show off their wares on Facebook and Instagram. Happy customers are almost always better advertisers than the companies they buy from.

03. Oddity Mall

Oddity Mall homepage.

Oddity Mall has really nailed the bizarre gift niche. They’ve tapped into an audience that is sick of giving the same old gifts to their loved ones and want something original and unique to offer.

Their website works completely off affiliate links, meaning that they technically don’t sell any of the products on their site, they merely advertise it for the companies that do.

3.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

3.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Huge viral potential – Pretty much everything linked by Oddity Mall has the potential to go viral. It’s all quirky and it all has the feel of something totally one-of-a-kind.
• Incredible gift guides and blogs – The amount of detail in gift guides such as ‘unique gifts for gadget lovers’, or in blogs like ‘10 unique toasters that belong in your kitchen’, means that Oddity Mall generates huge organic traffic through their writing. This means that they don’t have to rely heavily on expensive paid adverts.

• Gargantuan social following – If 3.1 million Facebook fans isn’t enough, how does over 10 million unique viewers monthly on Pinterest sound? These are frankly ridiculous numbers and they contribute so much to the revenue of the store.

Related Reading: Build Your Own Oddity Mall? Check Out The Best Home Decor Dropshipping Suppliers

04. Until Gone

Until Gone homepage.

Until Gone bases its whole approach off the psychology of FOMO. Everything on this store is geared towards making the customer feel like this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to grab something special, encouraging them towards an impulse decision.

Ever bought a chocolate bar at the supermarket while you’re waiting at the checkout? Until Gone is essentially an entire online shop of digital checkout chocolate.

4.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

4.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Trust building – Until Gone realises that leads may have trust issues when being pressed to ‘buy this now’, so they flaunt their good TrustPilot rating and provide warranties on all goods.

• Customer retention – Another popular strategy amongst many of these dropshipping store examples is to offer a loyalty program that rewards repeat buying. In Until Gone’s case, they offer exclusive coupons and up to 3% cashback.
  

• Not too pushy – It’s typical for stores that focus on daily deals to be overly pushy when it comes to making the sale. Until Gone has a nice design with clear spacing that helps customers to feel free to make their own decisions.

05. Dog Pawty

Dog Pawty collection page.

People are increasingly spending more money on their dogs, with costs reaching near to $2000 per year in some cases. More disposable income means that dogs are getting spoiled more and more, which is how Dog Pawty has made a name for itself.

Not only do they sell indulgent luxuries for dogs, they also sell the latest healthcare products and even a little something dog-related for owners as well.

5.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

5.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Doggie ambassadors – Dog Pawty encourages customers to upload pictures to Instagram of their pup wearing a Dog Pawty product. This is a great way to get their target audience to fawn over their stock.

• Extended merchandise – The store isn’t limited to just dogs. They’ve branched out their merchandise to ensure that dog-obsessed owners can buy doggie-themed shirts, mugs and even jewellery, which has expanded their revenue potential.

• Blog to attract organic traffic – Writing about what’s best for dogs is a great way for Dog Pawty to attract traffic, plug their products and even to collect some affiliate income from other dog sites. The blog is fairly basic at the moment, but regular updates will help to push up the store’s overall SEO score.

06. Mooshe Socks

Mooshe Socks homepage.

If there’s one thing that Mooshe Socks have nailed, it’s branding. All socks dropshipped from this store come with the elegant Mooshe packaging, which is lightweight, cheap to make, but really increases the exclusivity of the brand.

What they don’t do well, however, is customer service – take this as a lesson never to neglect your customers!

6.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

6.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Personalised design – The heart of Mooshe’s appeal is that the socks they dropship, don’t seem dropshipped. Their products appear to be their own, which ups the exclusivity factor and distances Mooshe from copy-and-paste dropshipping stores out there.

• Simple and in-demand product – Socks are the perfect product for dropshipping: cheap, lightweight and with tons of unique design potential. They haven’t convoluted their store by branching out into unrelated products: just socks, done well.

• Excellent social media following – Cutesy design and unique photography helped Mooshe amass its huge following on Instagram and Pinterest. It’s also popular amongst budding entrepreneurs looking for example dropshipping stores, largely thanks to this video.

07. Bidet Genius

Bidet Genius homepage.

It’s pretty unbelievable that a store that dropships bidets could reach a peak of 34,600 visitors in a month. Those are crazy numbers for a product that’s pretty bulky and expensive, but also isn’t particularly glamorous.

Bidet Genius’ success has been down to a professional attitude, free shipping, a decent blog and a lack of competition in the market.

7.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

7.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Lack of online competition – There certainly aren’t many other companies dropshipping bidets. Bidet Genius recognised a viable market and went after it; and they’ve certainly reaped the rewards.
  

• Free shipping – Bulky items could incur a large shipping fee, but by either taking on the cost themselves, or by adding part of the cost to the product price, Bidet Genius has ensured that all shipping to the continental U.S. is free. This is a big incentive to shop with them to avoid the inconvenience of a brick-and-mortar shop.

• Successful blog – How much success can you have on a blog about bogs? In Bidet Genius’ case, quite a bit! Incredibly, just one of its articles contributes to almost 50% of the store’s traffic per month.

08. Blue Crate

Blue Crate homepage.

Blue Crate works a little bit like Oddity Mall in the quirky gift niche, with a great eclectic design style to complement it.

However, there’s one big difference – this store offers personalised products featuring customers’ printed images. This really sets them apart from the competition.

8.1 What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

8.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Personalisation – Blue Crate specialises in personalised gifts. There is still the potential for this in dropshipping, you just need to get products sent from your supplier to a printing or packaging company before they arrive at your customer.

• Eye-catching website – Colourful design and funky shapes really helps Blue Crate to stand out. Their use of vibrant pictures and plenty of whitespace strikes the perfect balance.
  

• Great following – Their young audience can, and do, keep up to date with the latest products through Blue Crate’s great integration of Facebook and Pinterest.

09. Life Booster

Life Booster homepage.

Life Booster is all about items that boost your life. The clue is in the title, really. They have a great array of everyday accessories and gadgets that you may have never even thought you needed.

For a store less than a year old, their fun and funky website has really helped to get themselves off the ground.

9.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

9.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Good products – Everything that Life Booster offers solves a customer pain point. They’re all small, neat and cheap ideas that are easy to package and ship, which the store showcases through large images and detailed product descriptions.

• Easy browsability – The kind of products that Life Booster sells are great for window shopping. The store capitalises on this with easy navigation and sections for similar products. They also have a great library of reviews for each product, powered by the fantastic Shopify app Loox, which helps convince leads to take the plunge.

• Not overreaching – Life Booster is a great example of a new store that is managing its steady success. They’re proof that you don’t need a big team, huge advertising budget or super flashy website to launch your dropshipping business; you just need patience, hard work and a good niche.

10. Wallplate Warehouse

Wallplate Warehouse homepage.

Like Bidet Genius, Wallplate Warehouse is further proof that you don’t need to be sexy to be successful.

Wall plates and switch plates are far from the most glamorous of products to dropship, but this store has found its niche and is enjoying very little online competition, all while gradually branching out into more exciting products and raking in millions in revenue.

10.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

10.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• A very niche niche – What might seem at first like an unpopular niche actually makes sense the more you think about it. Every house has wall plates and every house needs them. Finding this kind of totally necessary but untouched niche is absolute gold dust in dropshipping.

• A substantial blog – Wallplate Warehouse has a staggering 20 pages on its blog housing about 100 individual articles. It’s certainly not easy to write so much about walls, but having such a meaty blog really helps drive traffic to the site, even if they don’t have a huge readership.
  

• Localised to the U.S. – The fact that American wall plates aren’t suitable for overseas use means that Wallplate Warehouse has to dropship exclusively within the U.S. Far from being a drawback, this actually means that shipping can be speedy and simple while the store focuses exclusively on its American audience.

Read more about Wallplate Warehouse’s million dollar success here

11. Aesthentials

Aesthentials homepage.

Vibrant, floral and stylish – Aesthentials certainly know how to attract their target audience.

Young teens flock to this store in their thousands every month to find unique clothing and K-pop style accessories, all displayed via original photography.

11.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

11.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Great personal touch – Aesthentials has done what every successful dropshipping store out there should strive to do – create a site that doesn’t feel like a dropshipping store. Exclusive photography, hand-drawn logo and use of custom fonts really reinforces Aesthentials’ individuality – the perfect example of a USP.

• Free shipping – Of all the dropship store examples we have here, Aesthentials probably has the best policy on shipping. They offer completely free shipping worldwide and probably have to dip into their own pockets to do so, but customers really appreciate a policy like this.

• YouTube outreach – The store brings in over half of its social traffic through YouTube. The platform is great for working with video influencers in the teen market and it’s a strategy that’s done wonders for them.

Aesthentials social traffic and top two channels.

12. Daily Steals

12.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

12.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Consistent presentation of unique selling point: Daily Steals wants you to remember that they’re the best in the business when it comes to good deals for technology, home & garden goodies. And they make sure you remember it by having discount badges placed on all of their products, throughout every page of the site.
• Excellent Display Ads Performance: With nearly one-third of their traffic comes from Display Ads – they’re wielding this PPC channel expertly. And Display ads are highly well-versed with the presentation of their Unique selling points – flashy, attention-catching premium deals and discounts, placed strategically across relevant websites. A killer combo.

13. Dude Gadgets

13.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

13.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Quick view feature: They have quick view options for all products on their collection page making it effortless for visitors to stay in one place while still being able to view product details. This feature is available to online stores using Shopify themes like Empires.

• Impressive Instagram followers: They have over 70K followers on Instagram and that’s pretty impressive for a dropshipping store. With a smart juxtaposition between Product posts, Photography posts and memes, the guys behind Dude Gadgets surely know their content marketing and their audiences.

14. Everloom baby

14.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

14.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

Most people associate dropshipping and Facebook Ads, Everloom Baby proves otherwise. They did not spend anything on PPC channels (as indicated by data from Spyfu.com and Alexa) – however, their organic traffic has been growing consistently since early 2020 with more and more keywords in the top 10, thanks to considerable SEO efforts.

15. Modelones

15.1. What are their successful dropshipping store hallmarks?

15.2. Why are they a successful dropshipping store?

• Facebook Community: They are able to create their own Facebook community with over 7000 active members – with this loyal customer base, they can easily leverage word-of-mouth marketing
• Excellent social media marketing: Modelones establishes itself on almost every popular social media platform – and they are good at it since 34.39% of their total traffic comes from Social media channels.

III. Why are Most Successful Dropshipping Stores on Shopify?

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that most dropshipping success stories are born from Shopify. It’s the world’s leading ecommerce site and an absolute haven of dropshipping stores.

01. The best Shopify dropshipping apps

The most important reason for this is that the best dropshipping apps operate on Shopify. Some, including top dog Oberlo, were created with Shopify optimisation in mind, meaning that they work best on Shopify. You can learn more about Shopify’s dropshipping apps in chapter 2 of our dropshipping series.

There are other apps available, too, of course. Shopify offers a stellar library of downloadable apps specialising in fields such as:

• Customer service – (Facebook live chat)
• Currency conversion – (Coin Currency Converter)
• Upselling and cross selling – (Wiser)
• Product reviewing – (Loox)
• SEO improvement – (Plug-in SEO)
• Page building – (PageFly)

PageFly’s simple drag and drop mechanism makes it easy to build something different.

Check out our list of Shopify apps for beginner, intermediate and advanced store owners here!

02. Great integration with social media

Social media followings for companies and dropshippers are now more important than ever. Shopify has wonderful social integration that allows you to build a fanbase across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and wherever else your audience is located. They’ve even written a great, comprehensive blog about how you can create a powerful social media strategy.

03. Affordable pricing

There are many expenditures to consider when dropshipping, but Shopify’s affordable pricing structure means that you can cover all your monthly hosting costs with just a couple of sales.

IV. What to Take from the Most Successful Dropshipping Stores?

So, what are the key takeaways of this whole thing? We’ve deconstructed some fabulous examples of dropshipping stores here – ones that fly the flag of success for the dropshipping model so well – but what have we learned?

Absolutely the key conclusion to draw here is to prepare thoroughly. Despite what the obnoxious dropshipping ads will say, success comes to those who are prepared for it. Your store will not reach 10k monthly visitors in two weeks and it will not ship 800 orders a month unless you have done your homework.

Adam Greenspan, the owner of Wallplate Warehouse, has been working on his store since 2003. He’s now a millionaire and he deserves every reward he gets, but he put serious time, money and faith into his project to make it one of the world’s most successful dropshipping stores.

Wallplate Warehouse’s success is clear to see. Image credit

He followed the 5 hallmarks of a successful dropshipping store:

1. Unique selling point
2. Clear and simple store
3. Great SEO score
4. Free shipping
5. Great social media following (well, not particularly this one)

He found a market, built a website and is living the dream. Put in the work and you could be a success as well.

If you’re ready to get started on dropshipping, you can check out the other chapters of our Dropshipping 101 series: how to find the perfect product and niche and how to build a high conversion dropshipping store.

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